Information 2.0

By Isto Huvila, 5 June, 2007
The 2.0 is definitely everywhere. Swedish Library Association organised in May 23-25 their annual meeting. Theme was a 2.0 concept Library 2.0 (Bibliotek 2.0) originally coined by Michael Casey in autumn 2005. Like the original World Wide Web itself (or web 1.0 in 2.0 jargon), the emergence and increasing availability of 2.0 technologies are having a significant effect on the information business in libraries and beyond in all other information and knowledge based organisations. The eventual changes are related to the technologies, but it seems that they are related even more to the changes in attitudes and preferences, and in the culture of information use and provision. The 2.0 might have a potential to affect not only the organisations or services (such as libraries), but also the interaction between organisations and there stakeholders.

Latest Publications

The NORDeHEALTH 2022 Patient Survey: A Cross-Sectional Survey of National Patient Portal Users in Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Estonia (Preprint)
Hägglund, M., Kharko, A., Hagström, J., Bärkås, A., Blease, C., Cajander, Å., et al. (2023). The NORDeHEALTH 2022 Patient Survey: A Cross-Sectional Survey of National Patient Portal Users in Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Estonia (Preprint). Journal Of Medical Internet Research, 25, e47573. http://doi.org/10.2196/47573 (Original work published mar)
On Archives and User Participation in the Nordic Countries
Huvila, I. (2023). On Archives and User Participation in the Nordic Countries. In G. Bak & Rostgaard, M. (Eds.) (pp. 225-236). London: Routledge. http://doi.org/10.4324/9781003325406-18
The Social Production of Discourse in Archaeology
Huvila, I. (2023). The Social Production of Discourse in Archaeology. In C. Gonzalez-Perez, Martin-Rodilla, P., & Pereira-Fariña, M. (Eds.) (pp. 115-136). Cham: Springer International Publishing. http://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-37156-1_6
Errors, Omissions, and Offenses in the Health Record of Mental Health Care Patients: Results from a Nationwide Survey in Sweden
Bärkås, A., Kharko, A., Blease, C., Cajander, Å., Fagerlund, A., Huvila, I., et al. (2023). Errors, Omissions, and Offenses in the Health Record of Mental Health Care Patients: Results from a Nationwide Survey in Sweden. Journal Of Medical Internet Research, 25, e47841. http://doi.org/10.2196/47841 (Original work published nov)
Managing Information Gaps and Non-Information
Huvila, I., Andersson, L., Fulton, C., Haider, J., & Harviainen, T. (2023). Managing Information Gaps and Non-Information. Proceedings Of The Association For Information Science And Technology, 60, 793-798. http://doi.org/10.1002/pra2.863

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Isto Huvila

(né Isto Vatanen)  
Professor in  
Information Studies  
Department of ALM  
Uppsala University

Docent (adjunct professor) in information management  
Information studies  
Åbo Akademi University

Isto Huvila is working on management and organisation of what we know and how we know in contexts ranging from social media to more traditional arenas of learning and working. My special areas of expertise are organisational information, social media, health, archives, libraries, museums and cultural heritage.

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